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@iyi_insan
English Language Teacher
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Nisan 2019 tarihinde katıldı
"I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion."
Reklam
"They used to say we were unproductive because we were lazy and drunkards. All lies! Now that we are respected as men, we are going to show everyone that we were never drunkards or lazy. We were exploited."
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As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.
From self-depriciation to critical awareness
Dissuading the people from critical intervention in reality: The oppressor knows full well that this intervention would not be to his interest. What is to his interest is for the people to continue in a state of submersion, impotent in the face of oppressive reality
Critical intervention in reality + acting upon that reality = praxis
The latter [the oppressed], whose task it is to struggle for their liberation together with those who show true solidarity¹, must acquire a critical awareness of oppression through the praxis of this struggle.
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This can be done only by means of the praxis² reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it
¹ the individual who discovers [themselves] to be an oppressor
² praxis
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression not as a closed world from which there is no exit, but as a limiting situation which they can transform.
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The oppressed can overcome the contradiction in which they are caught only when this perception enlists them in the struggle to free themselves.